Hey everybody. I've been doing a bit of 3D design work for a time now and I have a shop set up at Shapeways here: Mike's Model Shop. I'm looking for more projects and I'd like to know what you guys here would like to see. If I think I can do it, I'll try it. I don't have any armor stuff up yet but I hope to expand that.

I am looking for people to do some reviews on the products (eventually). If you would like to do a review, you have to buy the product yourself as I just don't have the money to buy review products for everyone. If you want to, contact me and I can remove the markup for a short period of time so you could buy the product at the lowest price (Shapeways' base price, I won't be getting anything from that). I will do that for the first 5 review purchases per product.

That said, I am not a professional with this program, Autodesk Inventor, and I do this as a side hobby. There are some things I just can't do, some due to limitations of the program and some just because I don't have the experience but if I think I can do it, I will try it.

Look at the PE sets that are available. Some of the parts are no closer to being accurate than the plastic part that came with the kit. PE is flat and some of the items they make should be 3D not 2D. That would be one place to start small and simple. If you felt ballsey make an accurate US M103 Turret and mantlet for the Dragon kit that everyone grumbles about.

Machine guns, yes, although it would only be moderately better than plastic. Spokes and glasses are no. Too thin and too delicate. They actually are not printable by Shapeways in this scale at this time. From what I've tried, if it's a piece of PE that's going to end up flat, it can't be printed. If it's going to be 3D when the PE is folded, it might be able to be printed.

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Look at the PE sets that are available. Some of the parts are no closer to being accurate than the plastic part that came with the kit. PE is flat and some of the items they make should be 3D not 2D. That would be one place to start small and simple. If you felt ballsey make an accurate US M103 Turret and mantlet for the Dragon kit that everyone grumbles about.

If I could I'd love to revamp the ENTIRE kit. But I can't. As far as I'm experienced, Inventor doesn't have the capability (and neither does my laptop) to do this. I can do small parts, definitely, but not the turret, unfortunately.

I need new hatches for an LVTP7 to fit HobbyBoss' LVTP7 kit #82409. Early LVTP7s had driver and troop commander hatches that had a "lip" which is not captured in the kit. Measurements would be easy as I would use the hatches in the HobbyBoss kit and scale drawings of early hatches.

AN/VIC systems can do. I've just thought about attempting to do an M8 HMC conversion. Just the upper hull though.

The Husky radar is a possibility, a long one, but a possibility. Because the arms would have to be done separately (but they could be one assembly separate from the radar unit), it would end up being a bit large and, yes, expensive. Unfortunately I can not do tires unless they are simple with few features (restriction of Inventor). To get the tread I'd have to make it as a decal which would result with a lack of features on the finished part.